Le 07/11/2011 05:29, Bruce Bruen a écrit : > I thought I had figured out all the secrets, but no. > > This is about custom controls (hereafter "CC") written in gambas. > > What I've found out so far > 1) Declaring one of the hidden constants with the value set to the > default causes problems, e.g. _IsContainer=False
Mmm. What are you talking about exactly ? > 2) (Related) Don't use the _DrawWith constant without care as it will > crash the IDE if the form is left open. _DrawWith works only if you specify a control used by the IDE project (it must be in gb.qt4, gb.qt4.ext, gb.form or gb.form.mdi). > 3) The Controls directory containing the icons now has to go under the > Project directory and migrating a GB2 project doesn't move them. Indeed. > 4) It would be really, really nice if IsContainer was a RO property > exposed by all controls To know if a control is a container, use the "IS" operator: If MyControl Is Container Then ... The difference is when a control actually inherits UserControl. It is a container, but it must be used as a control. So the test you need is: If MyControl Is Container And If Not MyControl Is UserControl Then ... > 5) It would be really, really, really nice if all controls had a > AcceptFocus property (IDE visible) so things like Picture boxes can be > skipped in custom navigation code Normally PictureBox is a read-only control, so it should not get the focus (do you use gb.qt or gb.gtk?). DrawingArea has a "Focus" property. I admit it may be useful to put that property in every control, but I'm not sure it is a good idea at the moment. > 6) The IDE now makes testing a custom control library project really > easy, except: > a) it doesn't display the controls like they would appear in the > finished product. It should. Please give more details. > b) the gb problem of having to reload the project if a new CC class > is added still seems to exist. What are you talking about exactly? Please give some details. > 7) Issue # 123 GUI dependencies in library projects not exposing any gui > dependency is a real pain. Yes. Not fixed at the moment... > ...and about a gazillion things about the differences in behaviour > between gtk and qt4 (but they are not gambas problems). Please report all of them as possible. The goal is to erase all these differences as much as possible. > > So I have now partially converted my first level CC library from gb2 to > gb3 and its real good! > But what do I do now? How do I make it useable in the IDE? > (Apart from 7 above I don't consider any of these to be gambas 3 > issues.) > > I have figured out that I can see the CC's in a form (*) in the IDE if I > add the CC component to the IDE and recompile it (well actually, ran it > inside itself). And they look real good and are displayed as they will > in the finished product (allowing for the visual difference b/n QT4 and > GTK). But the controls don't show up in the toolbox?? > > (*) Done by importing a GB2 project "mocked up" to use the GB3 CC > library control names > > I have tried sticking the library executable and the library.component > file in /usr/local/gambas3 but that achieves nothing. > I have tried sticking the library executable in /usr/bin with no joy. > > Would some of you nice people tell me what it is that I haven't done, > please. You must make a binary package of your component project. Normally this package should install the component in the same place as the other components located in the Gambas 3 source code, and should become as usable as them. Regards, -- Benoît Minisini ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user